Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Review: Virtual machine management tools; Sun: Virtualization confuses customers

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Taming the virtual beast: Part II

By Tom Henderson and Rand Dvorak, Network World Lab Alliance
In this second of three test pieces focusing on virtual machine management, Network World Lab Alliance member Tom Henderson reviews three commercial products and one open source project that all take a different route to controlling a piece of the overall problem of managing large scale virtual machine deployments. Read full story

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